Posted by Hugh on November 13, 2012, at 11:56:01
In reply to fear..., posted by rjlockhart37 on November 12, 2012, at 19:47:58
I've lived in fear for most of my life. Of all the symptoms of my depression, fear is the worst. Last year around Christmas, I bent the wrong way and got terrible back spasms. I spent the next week in bed and took the muscle relaxant baclofen. After a few days on baclofen, my fear went away. Poof. Gone. It was amazing. If only I could feel that way all the time, or even some of the time, my life would be completely different. Unfortunately, I couldn't tolerate the side effects of baclofen. After about a week on it, it started to give me terrible insomnia -- I was up all night two nights in a row. So I stopped taking baclofen. When I could sleep again, I started taking baclofen again, this time at a lower dose. But I couldn't tolerate the lower dose either. It caused my heart to race and made my palpitations much worse. And at the lower dose, it didn't eliminate my fear the way the higher dose did.
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